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Reflection from His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon on the Great Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos

Last week we celebrated the beginning of a new ecclesiastical year; now we mark the first great feast of the year, the birth of the Theotokos. The outer proclamation of the Gospel began with Christ’s Forerunner, whose conception we celebrate later this month, but the inner mystery of the Church, the Incarnation of the Word, begins with the Theotokos. Through her as through a gate that remained shut, the Son of God has entered into his creation, and henceforth we shall always know him as the Son of Mary. Though her role in our salvation was unique and unrepeatable, it does provide for us a model and a goal. With respect to the goal, we recognize that she bore Christ in her womb so that we could give birth to Christ in our lives and our hearts. ...

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On Sunday, September 7 and Monday, September 8, 2025 His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon made an archpastoral visit to Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, NY, to celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos with the seminary community. This marked the first primatial visit of the new academic year. ...

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Photo credit: Scott Strickland
2025/10/19 16:27:00
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